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Patented .Feb. 7, 1933 HERBERT W. TULLGREN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN APARTMENT Home Application filed February 11, 1931. Serial No. 514,934.

This invention relates to the construction of buildings, particularly apartment houses and the like.

Prior to this invention is has been the practice to erect apartment houses on the single floor layout plan, necessitating special landing facilities, elevator doors and equipment, fixtures, furnishings, etc., on each floor; also to provide corridors which necessitate curtailment of floor space alloted to living quarters.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of building apartment houses and thelike by which corridors, landings, etc., are eliminated at alternate floors and the space thus reclaimed is available to increase the floor space of living quarters.

Another object is the provision of an apartment building having individual apartments arranged to occupy two floors instead of one,

there being no landings. or corridors at the second floor levels.

A further object of this invention resides in the provision of abuilding having corridors and landings at alternate floor levels only.

And a still further object of this invention is to provide an apartment building and method of constructing the same wherein a saving of one half the cost of corridors,

landings, etc., is effected over prior art practice, with an attendant increase in living quarter floor space.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds,

as my invention resides in the novel construc' tion, combination and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter described and more particularly defined by the appended claims, it being understood that such changes 40 in the precise embodiment of the hereindisclosed invention may be made as come within the scope of the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated one complete example of the phys- 10:11 embodiment of my invention constructed according to the best mode I have so for devised for the practical application ofthe principles thereof, and in which:

Figure 1 is a floor plan section through a 50,builiding at a lower floor level.

with this invention each individual apartment has two floors, the lower floor comprising a living room, dining room, kitchen, entry hall, etc., while the upper floor comprises bedrooms and bath. A typical floor plan for .a corner apartment house is shown in Figures 1 and 2 Where the building, which may be any desired height, has three side walls 10, 11 and 12 giving street and alley frontages and a fourth side wall 13 facing a court 14. At one end of" the building is a main stairway 15 which adjoins the shaft for an elevator 16 and at the other end of the building is an- 7 other main stairway 17 At every landing or lower floor level for each series of apartments a corridor 18 extends substantially the length of the building along the court wall 13 between the stairways 15 and 17 with janitors closets 19 provided with a door 20, at one end. This corridor communicates with the stairway landings and with the elevator landing 21.

Between the corridor and the outer side Walls of the building the lower floor sections of several apartments, in this instance four, are arranged. These lower floor sections 22, 23, 24,- and 25 each include a living room, dining room, kitchen, toilet, and closet, with entry halls opening through their respective doors 26, 27,28 and 29 to the corridor. Stairs 30, 31, 32 and 33 in the respective apartments lead to the upper floor sections 22a, 23a, 24a and 25a respectively of the individual apartments, as shown in Figure 2. The upper floor 1 sections comprise bedrooms, closets and baths with the rooms facing on the court 14.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains that by the elimination of the corridors and elevator landings from the upper or bedroom-3 floors, considerable floor space is saved 'and 0 made available for use as living quarters. Furthermore, the elimination of corridors on the bedroom floors enables unobstructed cross ventilation for the sleeping quarters of each apartment precludes corridor noises and odors from the bedroom floors, and effects a substantial saving in the cost of the build- What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a multi-story apartment house containing at least four stories, a public interior corridor communicating with a vertical means for ingress and egress and with a series of apartment units divided by noncommunicable transverse walls, on alternate floors; a series of apartment units on intermediate floors divided by noncommunicable transverse walls extending from one end of the apartment units to the other and connected each with the apartment units below and extending over the public corridor below.

2. In a multi-story apartment house containing at least four stories, a public interior corridor communicating with stairwells and elevators and with a series of apartment units divided by non-communicable walls, on altern ate floors; a series of apartment units on intermediate floors divided by noncommunicable walls from outside wall to wall and connected each with the apartment units below and extending over the corridor below.

3. In a multi-story apartment house having at least four stories, a number of superimposed series of apartments each comprising a plurality of connected superimpose 'floors, a sufiicient number of interior public corridors communicated with vertical means of ingress and egress to afford access to one floor of each apartment so that corridors are located only at certain non-adjacent stories, the total floor space area of the apartments and corridors on those stories having corridors being co-extensive with the floor space area of the other stories whereby all the stories lie entirely within common exterior walls.

4. In a multi-story apartment house having at least four stories, public interior corridors on spaced stories and communicating with vertical means of ingress and egress, a

series of separated rooms each forming one floor of independent plural story apartments on each of said spaced stories and communicating with the corridor thereon, and a second series of separated rooms on each of the other stories, each forming another floor of the independent plural story apartments, the rooms comprising the series of one of the first mentioned spaced stories communicating with the aligned rooms of the series of one of the second mentioned stories to form complete plural rooms on said second mentioned stories occupying the space on said second mentioned gtories in alignment with the public corriors.

5. In a multi-story apartment house-having atleast four stories. a tier of independent plural story apartments, another tier of independent plural story apartments superimposed upon said first mentioned tier, a corridor within said building on one story of said first mentioned tier affording access to all the independent apartments in said first mentioned tier, a corridor within said building on one story of said second mentioned tier affording access to all the independent apartments in said second mentioned tier, the combined floor space area of the apartments and corridors on those stories having the corridors being co-extensive with that of the other stories, so. that all stories lie entirely within common exterior walls, means to communicate the stories in each of said independent apartments, and means communicated with said corridors to afford access thereto.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature.

HERBERT W. TULLGREN.

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